Button description Title ('Paisley District Tramways') within a border, surroundingelaborate script initials: 'PDT'Materials known Brass; nickelButton Line reference [114/55]Comments At some point, control of the company passed into the hands of the British Thomson-Houston Company Limited (BTH). BTH also owned, operated or controlled the following systems: Cork Electric Tramways, Chatham and District Light Railway, Isle of Thanet Electric Tramways, and Lanarkshire Tramways. Interestingly, the buttons of all these companies have very little in common stylistically, suggesting that BTH left this aspect of tramway operation to the tramway companies themselves.

The unusual gauge was to allow for the running of railway wagons over the system.